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Zap Polls: About to come back

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:47:35 +0000

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Sun, 29 Dec 2019 22:03:57 +0000

I'll be getting back to getting polls working on Zap. We've had the infrastructure partially built for years but I kind of got stuck trying to federate them between GNU-Social, ActivityPub, Diaspora, and traditional Zot - who all implemented them in completely incompatible ways. It's possible, but it adds so much complexity it isn't worth the effort involved. So to move forward I'm only trying to make them work on AP and Zot6 (which both use the same content serialisation under the hood).

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Zap Events: Upcoming changes

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Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:44:18 +0000 last edited: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 11:46:30 +0000

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:08:16 +0000

TL;DR - We're changing the encoding of Events in Zap to more closely match the ActivityStreams specification. There may be minor compatibility issues with events between Zap and some other platforms on the short term. Currently this affects seamless federation of events and event RSVPs between Zap, Friendica, Hubzilla, and possibly the "hometown fork" of Mastodon.

Detail: In some earlier ActivityPub implementations receipt of a Create/Event activity *implied* an invitation to that activity and RSVP responses could be sent directly to the Create/Event activity. According to the ActivityStreams vocabulary specification, this isn't the correct way to do it; although this mechanism is being used by several platforms today. Going forward we will not send Create/Event at all, but only Invite/Event; although we will also accept events and RSVPs from platforms that still use the "implied Invite".

The work on Zap is complete and will be pushed to the dev branch momentarily. I'm currently working on a patch for Hubzilla over Zot6 and will also attempt to patch Hubzilla's ActivityPub Protocol plugin in the next several days. Whether or not Friendica changes this behaviour on their end is up to that project's developers. The hometown fork of Mastodon also supports implied events and the developer of that fork is aware of this work but I'm not certain of the current development status. So there is likely to be a period of time until the dust settles where seamless event and RSVP federation between these projects may be a bit unpredictable.

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